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oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitationsciencetimes.com Discover how AI and brain implants are transforming rehabilitation. Read more on Cognify's innovative prison concept now!
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tech guys understand literally anything about the human experience challenge 2024
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difficulty level: completely impossible
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Someone has seen one too many DS9 episodes (and missed the point of this one).
Hard Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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Miles O'Brien is famously the most abused character in all of Trek, and THIS AND ONLY THIS IS WHAT DROVE HIM TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE, GAHHHHHH.
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Somehow the Torment Nexus Bros always miss the point of their favorite episodes
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we created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci fi movie, Demolition Man (1993)
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You dont become fabulously wealthy by having a sense of humanity or compassion, generally
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Brilliant people should aspired to greater goals than making money.
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These people are usually not very brilliant
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I mean, they are basically scamming people out of money because this is all dreamed up bullshit tech so the only people they will be hurting are people sadistic and guillable enough to invest in this.
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Putting aside the philosophical or esoteric nature of consciousness, they don't even understand that we don't understand how memories are formed.
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Putting aside even THAT, they obviously don't understand how current prisons make money, and how completely impossible it is going to be to get their stuff in use literally *anywhere* even if they could make it work (which they won't).
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If this is real, it seems calculated to attract money from the type of VCs that are AI-positive and allegedly backing Trump. Maybe they're developing a Theranos-style grift for those people.
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It isn’t, turns out. (I mean it was never gonna be real in the first place, but it’s doubly not real)
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like they’re either aliens or robots. what is happening